God Remains where Love Remains

05-16-2021Weekly Reflection© LPi

“God remains where love remains. When a believer realizes without doubt that God is love, it is a powerful moment. Being able to place our resurrection trust in this fundamental truth allows us to experience God’s presence in all of our experiences: the good and the bad, positive and negative, life enriching and destructive events we encounter. It is no wonder that St. Paul so accurately tells us that it is love that endures all things and lasts. How can God not endure or ever fade away? Because he is God, Jesus also guarded and protected his disciples as the endearing shepherd who always had their best interest at heart.

If we become too immersed in the world, we lose touch with these deeper realities. We can become so preoccupied with preserving what we have created or think that we need, forgetting that it is not building our city that really matters, but God’s. Jesus clearly did not belong to the world and, by virtue of his resurrection, he tries to get us to understand that we do not either. The truth brings us to other worldly, more divine places and takes our eyes off of the concerns that often captivate our fears and storm our senses.

Life can easily erode our faith. Think of your life over the last couple of weeks. What challenged your faith and distracted your divine glance? Even being overly stimulated with technology and social media can erode our sense of confidence and cause us to forget who we really are. We need to distance ourselves from the world in order to experience the joy that Christ offers. The world will never like the word of God. It is too challenging and too perplexing. The world mistakenly believes that it can survive on its own. It is a mistaken judgment that may cost people a lot in the end. It is all so very simple: God remains when we love one another. If in all the business of our lives and all that each day brings, the good and the bad, we follow the call and path of love, we will walk with God. There is nothing to fear and anxiety finds no home.

“Yo ya no estoy más en el mundo, pero ellos se quedan en el mundo, mientras yo vuelvo a ti. Padre Santo, guárdalos en ese Nombre tuyo que a mí me diste, para que sean uno como nosotros” (Juan 17:11). Jesús, en este pasaje del Evangelio de Juan, reza por mí y por ti. Desea que tengamos alegría plena, que nos consagremos en la verdad de su Palabra. Advierte que estamos en el mundo, pero no somos del mundo. Desea que seamos guardados en Dios, esto significa que estamos llamados a ser santos, como Dios es Santo. Jesús también nos enseña cómo pedir al Padre lo que necesitamos, lo que es necesario para nuestra salvación.

Muchas veces, nosotros pedimos cosas innecesarias, y al no obtenerlas nos alejamos de Dios, porque pensamos que no nos escucha. Queremos que nuestra vida sea fácil, sin ningún sacrificio por la familia o la comunidad. Pedimos, pero no damos nada a cambio. Somos ciegos al amor y misericordia de Dios ofrecida al mundo por medio de su Hijo Jesucristo. La oración de Jesús es viva presencia de la Gloria de Dios en el mundo. “Yo les he dado tu mensaje y el mundo los ha odiado porque no son del mundo, como tampoco yo soy del mundo. No te pido que los saques del mundo, sino que los defiendas del Maligno. Ellos no son del mundo, como tampoco yo soy del mundo” (Juan 17:14-16). La Solemnidad de la Ascensión es punto clave para compren-der esta parte de la oración. Vivimos en el mundo, pero vamos hacia el cielo.

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